Elite Discourse examines how language and communication - or just discourse - defines, mediates and legitimizes class privilege. It does so from the perspective of those people and places who often stand to gain most from inequality. Collective...Daugiau...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the impact of `strategic culture on Israeli military operations against Hamas between 1987 and 2014. It has often been argued that Israeli policies and military operations against Hamas have prove...Daugiau...

Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing: Theories, Histories and Policies examines and assesses the interdependence between sustainability and wellbeing by drawing attention to humans as producers and consumers in a post-human age. Why wellbei...Daugiau...

This collection examines what happens when one countrys experience of dealing with its traumatic past is held up as a model for others to follow. In regional and country studies covering Argentina, Canada, Japan, Lebanon, Rwanda, Russia, Turke...Daugiau...

This Brief revisits and extends Epsteins classical agent-based model of civil violence by considering important mechanisms suggested by social conflict theories. Among them are: relative deprivation as generator of hardship, generalized vanish...Daugiau...

Through an in-depth analysis of the multifaceted manifestations of gender and conflict, this book shows how cognition and behaviour, agency and victimization, are gendered beyond the popular stereotypes. Conflict not only reconfirms social hier...Daugiau...

When the five Central Asian republics gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, expectations of violent conflict were widespread. Indeed, the country of Tajikistan suffered a five-year civil war from 1992 to 1997. The factors that the...Daugiau...

In the 1930s, the U.S. government famously sent photographers across the country to document on film the need for federal assistance in rural areas. Dorothea Lange’s well-known image Migrant Mother came from this effort, along with thousands...Daugiau...

Race(ing) Intercultural Communication signals a crucial intervention in the field, as well as in wider society, where social and political events are calling for new ways of making sense of race in the 21st century. Contributors to this book wo...Daugiau...

Adaptations: the metropolitan landscapes of three delta regions is about environmental quality and the long term livability of urban areas. In decades to come climate change will affect cities everywhere, but nowhere have the effects of climate...Daugiau...

Adaptations: the metropolitan landscapes of three delta regions is about environmental quality and the long term livability of urban areas. In decades to come climate change will affect cities everywhere, but nowhere have the effects of climate...Daugiau...

Criminal Capital explores the relationship between neoliberalism, criminality and the reshaping of class in modern India. It discusses how the political vocabularies of urban industrial workers reflect the processes by which power is dist...Daugiau...

This book examines the biopolitical fetishisation of technology in contemporary practices of war, and thus explores how masculinity is being rearticulated within the context of US militarism. More specifically, it explores the ethico-po...Daugiau...

This introductory textbook surveys the evolutions of the histories, concepts, actors, actions, and pedagogies of the growing transdisciplinary field of Peace and Conflict Studies.The book provides an inclusive historical overview of the fie...Daugiau...

This introductory textbook surveys the evolutions of the histories, concepts, actors, actions, and pedagogies of the growing transdisciplinary field of Peace and Conflict Studies.The book provides an inclusive historical overview of the fie...Daugiau...

Despite decades of efforts to integrate conservation and development, India is torn between two very different worldviews of peoples place in the countrys natural environment. This book takes a critical look at nature conservation and poverty allev...Daugiau...

This book examines the effects of external interventions on conflict escalation in civil wars, using data from African conflicts since the cold war. It investigates how the targets and types of external interventions affect the c...Daugiau...

Twentieth and twenty first century Islamic extremism is having a catastrophic impact on our world. Acts of terrorism committed by groups professing Islamic motivations and goals have created a state of crisis in the Middle East. In recent decades att...Daugiau...

If the aim of graphic design is to communicate meaning clearly, theres an irony that the field itself has struggled between two contradictory opposites: rote design resulting from a rigorous, fixed set of rules, and eccentric design that expresses t...Daugiau...

An Economist Best Book of the YearSweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . ( Evans) writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating.Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street Journ...Daugiau...